Game is as slow as a turtle

[Drachenblut]

I got a P4 1.8Ghz with a GeForce 2 64mb and WinXP. I\'ve changed the compatibility thing to Win98/ME.

Anyway, once I start the game, it take a year to load the world, and this was not just the first time. When it finally ends up loading, it\'s as slow as 3 FPS or less, sometimes it seems to get stuck.

I\'ve no idea what the problem is, if you can please help me I\'ll be very greatful.

Thanks in advanve.

[acraig]

Well, at the moment I don\'t have any idea either.  There is a wide range of performances that people get so trying to pin it down to one single thing is very difficult.  
What might be nice is if somebody could crawl the forums and try to come up with a list of hardware specs related to performance.  This would help use try to figure out what factors seems to have the most influence on performances.

[Magni]

Make sure not to have opengl clamp enabled, and also try running at the resolution of 1024x768 in fullscreen for the game, for some odd reason I seem to get a higher frame rate for 1024x768 that 640x480 :?  Also if you haven\'t already try setting the game colour to 16-bit.

[Machinshin]

For what is worth:
Game slow as hell frozen over ;-)

Specs:
P4 1.8Ghz
GeForce 2 MX/MX 64MB  (winXP drivers, and now latest nvidia drivers too)
WinXP Home

I\'ve also changed the compatibility mode to Win98/ME.

[Sn33R]

I started the game once by clicking the shortcut that was created(the one with the yellow \"PS\" ) and got that.  It turned out that that was \"safe mode\" and is insufferably slow.  
I had much more acceptable results by going to program files/planeshift/psclient.exe  Rightclick it, click on send to, and send to desktop(shortcut).  Then you will have a generic icon on the desktop to use.
But first click on updater.exe, and after that click on pssetup.exe to set some video options.
Post back with us and let us know if that helps.

[hook]

it works nicely for me

athlon-tbird 900Mhz
512MG ram
geforce 2 mx
gentoo linux
cel, crystalspace and planeshift installed from source

[sashok]

Well I\'m guessing the internet connection has a little to do with the lag ?


So get DSL or cable.

I have 1.5 GHz
32M Nvidia
256 ram

the game sometimes freezes for short periods of time.
but most of the time plays fine.

(plays fine: Im not going into other issues)

[Craal]

Maybe this will help some.  The game runs slow for me as well in small screen.. I cannot seem to find the full.screen option in PSclient.

During game run, CPU usage caps at 100% pagefile will equal 440 mb or so on this system.

If it would help I would send someone via e-mail the complete dxdiag file, but this details my system.

300k cable modem

DXDIAG Info
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System Information
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Time of this report: 5/27/2003, 14:38:07
Machine name: POS
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 (2600.xpsp2.021108-1929)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: n/a
System Model: ASUS A7V333 fsb
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.0
Processor: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2100+,  MMX,  3DNow, ~1.7GHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 124MB used, 1126MB available
Windows Dir: C:\\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0a (4.09.0000.0901)
DX Setup Parameters: None
DxDiag Version: 5.03.0000.0901 32bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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  DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
      Display Tab 1: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
          Music Tab: No problems found.
          Input Tab: No problems found.
        Network Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D:    0/4 (n/a)
DirectDraw:  0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
DirectPlay:  0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow:  0/6 (retail)

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Display Devices
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Card name: RADEON 7000 SERIES  
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: Radeon 7000 AGP (0x5159)
DAC type: Internal DAC(350MHz)
Device Key: Enum\\PCI\\VEN_1002&DEV_5159&SUBSYS_003A1002&REV_00
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: SyncMaster 760TFT/ 760VTFT/ 780TFT
Monitor Max Res: 1280,1024
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6343 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 4/28/2003 22:39:48, 291584 bytes
WHQL Logo\'d: n/a
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
              VDD: n/a
         Mini VDD: ati2mtag.sys
    Mini VDD Date: 4/28/2003 22:39:24, 625920 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-1219-11CF-756B-3020A1C2CB35}
        Vendor ID: 0x1002
        Device ID: 0x5159
        SubSys ID: 0x003A1002
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_D ModeMPEG2_C